Bottle-crown.



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BOTTLE CROWN.

APPLICATION IILBD 1914.

1,112,880. Patented 0013.6,1914.

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CHARLES S. ZONNE, OF MINNEAPOLIS, 1 NESOT A.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 6, 1914.

Application filed February 26, 1914. Serial No. 821,132.

To all wiz am it may concern Be it known that I, CHARLES S. ZONNE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Minneapolis, in the county of Hennepin and State of Minnesota, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Bottle- Crowns; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention has for its object to provide an improved crown for bottles, and to such ends, generally stated, the invention consists of the novel construction and arrangement of parts hereinafter described and defined in the claim.

More specifically stated, the invention has for its object to improve the constnlction of crimped metal bottle crowns with a view of providing a simple and etiicient means whereby the crowns may be removed from the bottle necks by hand and without the use of any special tool.

The invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings wherein like characters parts throughout the several Referring to the drawings: Figure 1 is a perspective view showing one of the improved crowns applied to a bottle, a portion of the body of the bottle being broken away; Fig. 2 is a plan view of the bottle and. crown; Fig. 3 is a plan View showing the metal blank from which the crown is formed.

The bottle 1 is of the ordinary construction, having on the mouth of its neck the usual rib over which the crimped edge of the crown is adapted to be sprung in the customary way. The body of the crown 2 is of the usual construction, being provided with a crimped edge adapted to be sprung over the rib at the mouth of the bottle neck and to be secured thereon in the well known manner. My invention consists in providing 'crown and lip 3 are formed from a single piece of metal, such as shown in Fig. 3, and of the parts of this blank, the main body portion 2 is adapted to form the crimped crown proper, while the extended portion 3 is adapted to form the lip 3. It should be here noted that the blank from which the crown is formed comprises two portions consisting of segments of two circles of different diameters, their line of juncture being a chord common to the two circles. This arrangement provides the proper body and lip-forming portions of the crown and gives the best possible arrangement for allowing the complete circular arrangement of crimps required to clamp the crown on the neck of the bottle. In the completed crown, it affords the most desirable form of projecting lip. In the operation of stamping this crown into form and providing the same with a crimped edge, it is necessary also to crimp the lip or finger-piece 3, so that the proper contraction of the crown edge on the lip may be made. Furthermore, this crimping of the lip or finger-piece 3 is highly desirable, because it gives the same the desired stiffness. .By reference to Fig. 2, it will be noted that the lip does not project from the bottle neck merely to the extended cylindrical surface of the body of the bottle, and hence does not interfere with acking or wrapping of the bottle, or p acing the bottles within suitable cases. Furthermore, the crowns with the'projeoting lips or fingerpieces may be stamped into form as readily as the ordinary crowns, and require but a trifle more meta1,.so that the additional cost thereof, if any, is so small as to be unconsequential.

The desirability of having crowns which may be readily removed by hand operation and without the use of a special tool is ob vious, and is well known to all persons who have had to do with opening botles equipped with metal crowns.

What I claim is:

A bottle crown formed from a single piece of sheet metal constituting a blank comprising two integral relatively large and small portions consisting of se ents of circles of 'In testimony whereof I aflix my signature difi'erent diameters, their lulile of junotpre 1n presence of two witnesses.

being a chord common to t e two circ es the relatively largebody portion having a. I CHARLLSS' ZONNE' 5 complete circular crimped flange, certain of Witnesses:

' which crimps extend outv varcl in the rela- HARRY D. Klmorm, tively small lip-formmg cn'cular portion. F. D. MERCHANT. 

